CHANGES

   doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).

 Daniel (8 September 1999)
 - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.

 Daniel (7 September 1999)
 - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
   Stefan Kanthak.

 - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.

 Daniel (3 September 1999)
 - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.

 Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999)
 - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
   library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
   directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
   ldap:// URL.

 Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999)
 - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
 - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
   performance reasons.

 Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999)
 - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.

 Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999)
 - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
   root dir of the openssl installation, as in

        ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here

 - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.

 Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999)
 - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
   compiles.

Version 5.11

 Daniel (25 August 1999)
 - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line
   realloc() system in download.c.

 - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
   probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
   as a start.

 - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
   used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
   changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
   first.

 Daniel (17 August 1999)
 - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
   original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
   again.

 - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
   them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
   not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas
   E. Wegscheid.  I also changed the README text a little regarding this.

 Daniel (16 August 1999)
 - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
   page. Nusu's page showed this too.

 - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
   used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
   should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
   painfully visible...

 Troy (15 August 1999)
 - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
   configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
   files are in /usr/include/openssl

Version 5.10

 Daniel (13 August 1999)
 - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
   OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
   modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
   a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
   to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...

 - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.

 Troy (12 August 1999)
 - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
   a bit rearranged.
 
 Daniel (12 August 1999)
 - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
   tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
   allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.

 - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
   -Wall -pedantic was used.

 - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
   will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
   The old one still works and shows the same info.

 Daniel (11 August 1999)
 - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
   configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.

 Daniel (10 August 1999)
 - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as
   some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under
   HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate
   yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new,
   we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it
   still compiles there.

 Daniel (5 August 1999)
 - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
   around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
   brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
   about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.

   To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
   <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
   libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se.  Curl bug reports, the usual curl
   talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
   started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
   www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.

 - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure
   script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under
   Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!

 - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present
   in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...

 - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet
   support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on
   the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and
   run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little
   weird output.

   This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
   feed-back and input in how this is best done.

   WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
   lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.

 - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be
   defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the
   configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it.

 Daniel (4 August 1999)
 - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
   which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
   servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
   some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
   hope you report if you have problems with this!

 - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.

 Daniel (2 August 1999)
 - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers
   a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. 

 T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
 - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
   username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
   another location (option '-L').

   There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
   tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
   argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
   CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
   checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
   redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.

Version 5.9.1

 Daniel (30 July 1999)
 - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata
   functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to
   correct this flaw.

 - Mark Wotton reported:
   'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps.  I managed to cure this by
   correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
   0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
   don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.

 - Marcus Klein:
   Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
   I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.

 Daniel (29 July 1999)
 - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location:
   and I could only agree and fix it!

 - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out
   that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter
   when supposed to.

 - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If
   you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a
   standard port number, curl still used that first port number.

 - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION
   and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on
   the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any
   html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if
   CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.

 - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
   Beckmann).

 - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the
   latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now
   in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
   option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
   leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.

 Daniel (9 June 1999)
 - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
   I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.

 Daniel (4 June 1999)
 - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
   with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
   something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
   and Mark Butler brought a solution for it.

 Daniel (26 May 1999)
 - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
   README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann.

 - I also updated the INSTALL text.

 Daniel (25 May 1999)
 - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal
   with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl
   -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed.

Version 5.9

 Daniel (22 May 1999)
 - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some
   problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug
   report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms
   when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
   and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...

 Daniel (20 May 1999)
 - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.

 Daniel (19 May 1999)
 - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread()
   function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel
   helped me out isolating it.

 Daniel (16 May 1999)
 - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't
   work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.

 - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl
   to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was
   used.

 Daniel (10 May 1999)
 - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
   files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
   layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
   future!

 - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl
   archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a
   debian package that I've made available for download at the web page

 Daniel (9 May 1999)
 - Made it compile on cygwin too.

 Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
 - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
   again!

 Daniel (6 May 1999)
 - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
   will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
   can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
   too.

Version 5.8

 Daniel (5 May 1999)
 - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
   for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
   there are problems all over.

   I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
   week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at
   hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this.

   Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
   generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
   can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
   before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
   a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!

 Daniel (4 May 1999)
 - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
   the regexes.

 - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
   I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
   curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
   in:

        curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html

   This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
   I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
   there may depend on that the file is always touched...

 - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.

 - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send
   "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea.  I implemented it
   right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date
   expression or a file name to get the date from!

 Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999)
 - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
   isn't set and causes the make to fail.

 Daniel (26 April 1999)
 - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version
   number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug
   in my maketgz script!

 David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999)
 - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.

Version 5.7.1

 Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999)
 - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
   below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h

 - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
   INSTALL file.

 Daniel
 - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
   README file

 Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999)
 - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
   It needs an #include <sys/types.h>

Version 5.7

 Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
 - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!

 - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
   simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!

 - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
   start.

 Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999)
 - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.

Version 5.6.3beta

 Daniel (Apr 12 1999)

 - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
   in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
   try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?

 - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!

 - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
   much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
   should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
   talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
   start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
   use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
   want such a crippled solution.
 
 - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the
   "Curr.Speed" progress meter.

 - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from
   stdin.

 - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!

 Daniel (Apr 9 1999)
 - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume.  It didn't work at
   all! ;-O

 Daniel (Apr 6 1999)
 - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.

 - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
   previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
   some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
   best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!

Version 5.6.2beta

 Daniel (Apr 4 1999)
 - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
   it works.
   To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
   format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
   -b flag like:

        curl -b file http://site/foo.html

   Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
   a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
   following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".

   To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
   sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
   to start with no existing cookies), like:

        curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html

 - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
   reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.

 - Better "Location:" following.

 Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
 - A subsecond display patch.

 Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
 - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
   things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
   5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
   set for libcurl.

 - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
   that.

 - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
   win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
   Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
   INSTALL for details.

 - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
   server while remaining connected.

Version 5.6beta

 Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
 - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the
   suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing
   HTTP headers separately in the specified file.

 - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.

 - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
   in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...

 Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
 - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
   and smaller size.

 Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
 - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
   curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
   the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
   before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.

   libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
   the lib functions though.

   The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
   about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)


 Daniel (Mar 1 1999)
 - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the
   info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them.  The link is now in the
   README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.

 Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
 - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
   in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...

 Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
 - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
   the most recent.

 Henri Gomez (Fri Feb  5 1999)
 - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
   RPM automatically...

Version 5.5.1

 Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999)
 - Corrected problems in Download().

 Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
 - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from
   compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.

Version 5.5

 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
 - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.

 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
 - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
   ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
   buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!

 Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999)
 - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
   It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
   formatted.

   To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
   the RFC)

        dict://dict.org/m:hello
        dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex


 Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999)
 - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.

 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
 - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.

Version 5.4

 Daniel Stenberg
 (7 Jan 1999)
 - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress
   reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on
   again. This is now corrected!

 (4 Jan 1999)
 - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If
   you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file
   upload.

   I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
   that.

 (4 Jan 1999)
 - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function.  I corrected it
   now.

 (4 Jan 1999)
 - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It
   should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes.

 - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
   I redid that now.

Version 5.3a (win32 only)

 Troy Engel
 - Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part.

Version 5.3

 Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998)
 - I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to
   send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote
   command-line arguments.

   You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in
   order.  This is what I use for my MVS upload:

  curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test

   Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order.

 - Made it compile smoothly on AIX.

 Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (18 Dec 1998)
 - Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server.

 Troy Engel (17 Dec 1998)
 - Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug.

 Daniel Stenberg
 - A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung, caused curl to crash on the -A
   flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems should've!

 - Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _
   instead of . and \ instead of / in win32).

 - steve <fisk at polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the
   ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size)
   info. I hope it works better now!

Version 5.2.1

 Steven G. Johnson (Dec 14, 1998)
 - Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the
   environment variables.

Version 5.2

 Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998)
 - Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the
   hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using
   both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man
   page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c
   file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times
   anyway.

 - gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char'
   if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to
   int. So I did to compile warning free with that too.

 - Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I
   need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long
   comforming systems!

Version 5.1 (not publicly released)

 Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998)
 - I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone?

 - Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl
   now reads and understands the following environment variables:

	HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY

   They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be
   set with
	
	ALL_PROXY

   And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any
   proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts).

	NO_PROXY

   The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.

 - Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix.

 - Wrote the curl.1 man page.

 - Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is
   based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully,
   there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now.

 - Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under
   solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok.

 Oren Tirosh (Dec 3, 1998)
 - Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM
   packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec.

 Troy Engel
 - Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32.

Version 5.0

 Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998)
 - Not a single bug report in ages.
 - Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the
   Win32 VC++ crap.

Version 5.0 beta 24

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998)

 HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE:

 * Pre-requisite software:
   What		     To build what             Reads data from
   ====              =============             ===============
   GNU automake      Makefile.in, aclocal.m4   configure.in
     GNU make(1)      - " -
     GNU gcc(1)       - " -
   GNU autoconf      configure                 configure.in
   GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in	       configure.in, acconfig.h

 * Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES.

 * Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive.

   maketgz does:

   - Enters the newly created version number in url.h.
   - (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless
     you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.)
     If you have it, it'll run it.
   - If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly
     created version number and autoconf will be run.
   - Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base
     name of the current directory up to the first '-'.)
   - Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving
     permissions and directory structure.
   - Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz
   - gzips the archive
   - Removes the new directory and all its contents.

 * When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named
   curl-<version>.tar.gz.

   Done!

   (1) They're required to make automake run properly.
   (2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive.

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998)
 - I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in
   another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this
   new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different
   variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves
   to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler!
 - Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now.
 - Brian Chaplin reported yet another problem in
   multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new
   version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback!
 - Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes
   an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one.
 - Mailing list opened (see README).
 - Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells
   host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section
   about PORT vs PASV in the README.

Version 5.0 beta 21

 Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998)
 - Introduced automake stuff.

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998)
 - Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own
   private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM
   format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by
   downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site
   at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can
   convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format.  Use
   it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'.  If this isn't a
   cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-)
 - Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out.
   (curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do
   have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must
   be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to
   get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n.

 Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998)
 - Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser.
 - Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that
   source file).

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998)
 - We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX.
   Thanks again to Bjorn Reese and Martin Staael.
 - Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out
   how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get
   really good.

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998)
 - Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line.
   Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I
   downloaded a gopher page with it)!
 - Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I
   had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will
   be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used.
 - stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my
   changes don't make other versions go nuts instead.

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998)
 - Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX
   warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent
   me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead
   of strequal()...
 - I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little.
 - Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be
   sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything
   after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird
   name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'.
 - Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command
   line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid.
 - Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I
   believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now.

 Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998)
 - Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license
 - Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag
 - Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998)
 - Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation
   I build a release archive!
 - I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to
   be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in 
	curl -lsv ftp.site.com
   Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters
   that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the
   last in a merged sequence:
	curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com
   is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause
   unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped).
 - I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL
   license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming.
 - Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now
   setup.h.
 - The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive.

 Angus Mackay (Nov 5, 1998)
 - Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff

 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998)
 - Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own
   specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use
   a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once
   for every custom header you want to add.
 - Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files.
 - Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy
   usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to
   write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the
   .curlrc file anyway.
 - Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data
   which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST.
   Shiraz Kanga asked for the feature and my brother,
   Björn Stenberg helped me design the user
   interface for this beast.  This feature requires quite some docs,
   since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-)
 - A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to
   0.8 will *not* work with curl!
 - Wil Langford reported a bug that occurred since curl
   did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it.
 - Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read
   first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as
   additional config items.
 - Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read.
 - You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file
   specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through
   that.
 - I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports
   could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name
   instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names.
 - Martin Staael reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT
   (test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this
   version anymore.
 - Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file
   using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other
   available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary
   transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though!
   :-)
 - Troy Engel pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME")
   usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with
   this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that...
 - A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built
   with SSL support...
 - Ryan Nelson sent me comments about building curl
   with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure
   script, it should work better and automatically now...
 - Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses
   proxy port number separate from normal port number.
 - 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on:
    Host         SSL  Compiler
    SunOS 5.5    no   gcc
    SunOS 5.5.1  yes  gcc
    SunOS 5.6    no   cc  (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem)
    SunOS 4.1.3  no   gcc (without ANSI C headers)
    SunOS 4.1.2  no   gcc (native compiler failed)
    Linux 2.0.18 no   gcc
    Linux 2.0.32 yes  gcc
    Linux 2.0.35 no   gcc (with glibc)
    IRIX 6.2     no   gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings)
    IRIX 6.4     no   cc  (generated warnings though)
    Win32        no   Borland
    OSF4.0	 no   ?

 - Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't
   set.
 - When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases
   like:
	curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com
   Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so
   if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol
   string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used
   without proxy.
 - Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different
   https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number
   correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the
   proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL.
 - Bjorn Reese helped me work around one of the compiler
   warnings on IRIX native cc compiles.

Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998)
 Daniel Stenberg
 - John A. Bristor suggested a config file switch,
   and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long
   time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce
   the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to
   load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the
   config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl
   -h' or the README.
 - I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would
   want to enable with curl anyway.
 - Martin Staael helped me add the 'irix' target. Now
   "make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines.
 - Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second
   will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that
   you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc.

Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998)
 Daniel Stenberg
 - Martin Staael suggested curl would support cookies.
   I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's
   also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text.
 - dmh <dmh at jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could
   manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work
   for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway).
 - Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script
   that checks all links of a web page by using curl.
 - Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the
   src/ dir from now on!
 - Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license.
   I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the
   Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You
   must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute
   curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need
   to offer the world the source to that too.
 - Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET
   request.  It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do
   that anyway.  Thanks to Gordon Beaton for the report!
 - -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael. This makes
   curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location: redirect if one is present in the HTTP
   headers. If -i or -I is used with this flag, you will see headers from all
   sites the Location: points to. Do note that the first server can point to a
   second that points to a third etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said
   to be an AbsoluteURI in RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've
   made curl ATTEMPT to do the best it can to deal with the reality.
 - Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads
   files that a web page links to.

Version 4.8.4
 Daniel Stenberg
 - As Julian Romero Nieto reported, curl reported wrong version number.
 - As Teemu Yli-Elsila pointed out, the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all
   other versions for win32) didn't work with binary files since I'm too used
   to the UNIX style fopen() where binary and text don't differ...
 - Ralph Beckmann brought me some changes that lets curl compile error and
   warning free with -Wall -pedantic with g++. I also took the opportunity to
   clean off some unused variables and similar.
 - Ralph Beckmann made me aware of a really odd bug now corrected. When curl
   read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided into more than one read
   and the first read showed a full line *exactly* (i.e ending with a
   newline), curl did not behave well.

Version 4.8.3
 Daniel Stenberg
 - I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the
   changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't
   upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain
   corrected.  Reported by Julian Romero Nieto.

Version 4.8.2
 Daniel Stenberg
 - Bernhard Iselborn reported two FTP protocol errors curl did. They're now
   corrected. Both appeared when getting files from a MS FTP server! :-)

Version 4.8.1
 Daniel Stenberg
 - Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The
   final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered
   which made it sometimes look odd.
 - Thanks to David Long I got rid of a silly bug that happened if a HTTP-page
   had nothing but header. Appearantly Solaris deals with negative sizes in
   fwrite() calls a lot better than Linux does... =B-]

Version 4.8
 Daniel Stenberg
 - Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to
   specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a
   download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server
   since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of
   the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to
   use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing
   the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get
   the end of a file.
 - recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument.

Version 4.7
 Daniel Stenberg
 - Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount
   (speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time.
 - Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a
   whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be